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Roderic D. M. Page commented on PF-2394 - Micrurus isozonus sandneri ssp. nov.

2017-10-06T09:36:17.979Z

I'm not sure this name is validly published. To be valid:

"The requirements for electronic publications are that the work be registered in ZooBank before it is published, that the work itself state the date of publication and contain evidence that registration has occurred, and that the ZooBank registration state both the name of an electronic archive intended to preserve the work and the ISSN or ISBN associated with the work."

I can't see any evidence that this article has been registered.

Roderic D. M. Page commented on PF-2859 - basis of record invalid!?

2017-08-17T11:21:53.830Z

I have 2 questions:
1. Why is the basis of the dadat set invalid?
2. I chose a hearing (higher?) taxon to get a list of all the species from Deuschtland. Is it otherwise possible?

Roderic D. M. Page commented on PF-2858 - Oxysaurus Hoser, 2013

2017-08-17T11:19:50.982Z

Danger Will Robinson. Here be dragons, literally.

Roderic D. M. Page commented on PF-2856 - Errores dentro de Gentianaceae

2017-08-10T05:34:19.014Z

These synonyms come from Catalogue of Life, and as is typical there is no reason given. CoL gives "WorldPlants" as its source http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017/details/database/id/141 but the link takes you to a page where that
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Roderic D. M. Page commented on PF-2856 - Errores dentro de Gentianaceae

2017-08-10T05:19:47.087Z

Translation:

I have found that species with accepted names are synonymous with other species. For example, within Halenia weddeliana this Halenia hoppii; Within Gentianella selaginifolia even found G. dasyantha.

Best regards

Roderic D. M. Page commented on POR-2781 - Decide whether we want subranks in the backbones higher classification

2017-06-14T07:22:35.905Z

Ranks between genus and species, such as subgenus should also be considered. There are some groups where the classification makes extensive use of these, including some medically important taxa (eg., mosquitoes). In general subgenera are a huge pain,
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Roderic D. M. Page commented on PF-2822 - Plioreocepta and Platyparea poeciloptera

2017-04-30T09:01:48.702Z

The Plioreocepta genus dates from 1987, see "Korneyev VA (1987) The asparagus fly and its position in the system of the Tephritidae (Diptera). Vestnik Zoologii 1987(1): 39–44." available at http://bionames.org/references/faf0240e6014fdaa6796bb52be75af8f

I can't read Russian, but looking at that paper it looks like Plioreocepta is a replacement name for Poeciloptera, and Korneyev treats Platyparea as a synonym. So the two names Plioreocepta poelicoptera and Platyparea poeciloptera are synonyms.

Roderic D. M. Page linked 2 issues

2017-03-22T13:27:09.872Z

POR-3201 - Brazilian plant names not parsed

relates to

POR-3219 - Brazilian plant names not parsed correctly

Roderic D. M. Page created POR-3219 - Brazilian plant names not parsed correctly

2017-03-22T13:26:33.000Z

Following on from an earlier version of this issue http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-3201 there are multiple names in the RB - Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Herbarium Collection dataset http://www.gbif.org/dataset/4300f8d5-1ae5-49e5-a101-63894b005868 that ar not parsed correctly, including many type specimens.

One problem is that the dataset has scientific names such as "ELAEOCARPACEAE Sloanea verrucosa Ducke" http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1424254056/verbatim which combines family, genus, species, and author (these are all available as separate fields).

I guess either (a) we ask the data providers to fix this and provide just the scientific name, or (b) we need a custom parser to handle these names.

Roderic D. M. Page commented on DM-301 - Global Names Usage Bank considered harmful - mass duplication of names

2017-01-17T14:54:09.922Z

Markus Döring Nice to see this, I've grabbed a copy of the DwCA file to have a closer look